From: Arich Chanachai <macrocosm@...>
Date: 2004-09-14T12:59:54+09:00
Subject: Re: JRuby article

Curt Hibbs wrote:

> Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> 
>>>JRuby article here.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-alj09084/?ca=
>>dgr-lnxw07JRubyIntro
>>
>>Thanks T.
>>
>>It's good to see articles like this.  It's a shame that they all use such
>>unidiomatic Ruby, like
>>
>>  print "Hello, world!\n"
>>
>>instead of
>>
>>  puts "Hello, world!"
>>
>>and 'if not' instead of 'unless'.  Oh well... at least it's going to
>>encourage me to try it out!
> 
> 
> I think its because the authors are not really Rubyists. I didn't recognize
> the names of the authors so I did some googling. For the first author,
> Michael Squillace, I could not find any web references that included Ruby
> except for this article. And it looks like the second author, Barry
> Feigenbaum, has a penchant for scripting languages implemented in Java --
> he's also written articles on JPython and Groovy.
> 
> But the having more press for Ruby is always good and who knows, maybe these
> two authors will become smitten by Ruby from this experience!  :-)
> 
> Curt
> 
> 
> 
Some people dislike this "many ways to do the same thing".  I read the 
book which uses puts but then I found elsewhere that print did the same 
thing.  Which was nice for me since I'm a Python native.